debian man page for jacal

JACAL(1)						      General Commands Manual							  JACAL(1)

NAME
       JACAL - symbolic mathematics system

SYNOPSIS
       jacal [ scheme | scm | gsi | mzscheme | guile | scheme48 | larceny | scmlit | elk | sisc | kawa ]

DESCRIPTION
       JACAL  is  a  symbolic  mathematics  system  for  the simplification and manipulation of equations and single and multiple valued algebraic
       expressions constructed of numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic functions, differential, and holonomic functions.  In addition, vec-
       tors and matrices of the above objects are included.

OPTIONS
       The optional argument to the jacal script is the Scheme implementation to run.  Absent the argument, it searches for implementations in the
       above order.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH
	      is the SLIB Scheme library directory.

FILES
       jacal.info
	      Texinfo documentation of jacal.

       demo
	      batch("demo"); to demonstrate commands in jacal

       rw.math
	      batch("rw.math"); to demonstrate tensors in "The Robertson-Walker Cosmology Model".

       test.math
	      batch("test.math"); for regression suite.

AUTHORS
       Aubrey Jaffer (agj @ alum.mit.edu)
       Michael Thomas
       Jerry D. Hedden

SEE ALSO
       The JACAL home-page:
       http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/JACAL.html

       The full documentation for jacal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and jacal programs are properly installed at your site, the
       command
	      info jacal

       should give you access to the complete manual.

4th Berkeley Distribution					    Dec 20 2007 							  JACAL(1)